A former correctional officer at Southern Regional Jail was sentenced Monday for his role in the 2022 death of an ...

A 43-year-old man has been sentenced to more than 100 years in prison for child exploitation in Fluvanna County.

A recently-passed Virginia law is targeting drug dealers linked to fentanyl deaths, something a local mother has pushed for.

Byron Black, a 69-year-old man on Tennessee's death row, has formally petitioned Governor Bill Lee to commute his death ...

BEAVER, W.Va. (WVVA) - Two additional former corrections officers have been sentenced for their role in the death of an ...

From minimum wage hikes to bans on cellphones in public schools, here are the most ridiculous ways state governments are ...

Virginia’s death row population peaked in 1995 at 57 or 58 inmates. Today there are just four, the fewest since July 1979, not long after Virginia law was changed enabling resumption of the ...

They also make up over 62% of all current death row inmates and 55.5% of all executions since 1955, the year with the earliest detailed data on executions from MDOC.

Here are the facts. Florida has 271 inmates on death row. Due to appellate rules in death cases, some of them have been there since the 1970s.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal by Alabama officials of a judicial decision that a man convicted of a 1997 murder is intellectually disabled - a finding that spared him ...

Government & Politics Indiana death row inmate seeks SCOTUS intervention weeks before scheduled execution Lawyers for convicted murderer Benjamin Ritchie want to delay the May 20 execution so they can ...

Benjamin Ritchie was "sentenced to death based on inaccurate information," his legal team wrote in a May 7 petition for writ of certiorari.